The Good, the Bad and the Very Bad: Theory of the Market
Welcome to the disconnect of 2007 Same as the disconnect of 2006 Painter Charline von Heyl recently described American’s disconnect between…
Magazine Articles
Andreas Gursky: Pyongyang
London waits for an Andreas Gursky exhibition and then two come along at once. This spring twelve new works by…
Marcellvs L.
For a number of years, Marcellvs L.’s first video works only circulated from hand-to-hand, via DVD copies produced by the…
Francis Alÿs
Originally published in Flash Art Intenational no. 254, May – June 2007. It’s always strange to see the work of…
Robert Gober
The following text originally appeared in Flash Art No. 177 Summer 1994 and was written by Henry Schwartz, a psychoanalyst…
Isa Genzken
The art student was shocked. The carefully prepared presentation collapsed under a surprisingly simple if not quite obvious question the…
Sci-Fi Historicism
Ed Ruscha’s objective inventory of life in Southern California is wholly determined by the road, the highway and freeway, as…
Shadows on the Façade
Maurizio Cattelan: I want to start with something you said to Mery Nonha regarding your film Shadows on The Façade…
Andro Wekua
Andro wekua’s work combines a seductive and terrifying sense of composition, which seems to be walking in its sleep, with…
Mika Rottenberg
The female body, in all its potential fantastic proportions, obsesses Mika Rottenberg. Her eccentric videos have featured body builders, dancers,…
Giulio Paolini
Andrea Bellini: Let’s start at the beginning. Is there a real beginning? What are the moments and the intuitions that…
Jean Baudrillard
The following interview originally appeared in Flash Art No. 130 October-November 1986 and was conducted by the French art critic…
Kateřina Šedá
Kateřina Šedá’s work in the rural atmosphere of Central and Eastern Europe is usually interpreted as social intervention. However, when…
Haegue Yang: Remote Room
Black, white, white, black. And timid colors juxtaposed, barely detectable, that issue from a recent past. This exhibition and its…
Art & Language
Since the extensive retrospective held at the Tapies Foundation in Barcelona in 1999, and the exhibition at the CAC in…
Sci-Fi Historicism
What is a character? It is, first of all, a letter, and secondly, an aggregate of letters, a representation of…